I'm one of the people who actually started off playing DayZ from the mod and I've got to agree with you that the atmosphere on that was much more intense than in Standalone just because people are fighting along the coast and not exploring around the map mainly in Elektrodavask and wearing pink rain coats, etcetera and whenever I adventure to one of the military bases as you mentioned I don't feel that same atmosphere like I first did so I'm basically forced to go onto 1PP servers to get that same feeling because it feels most intense and when I started playing so I hope when this "DayZ2012" re-boot server comes out it will give me that feeling back but Gaz you pretty much described how I feel about DayZ also and most likely described it for others.
